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Official X & Y Help Thread

As the games are out and people are already asking questions about what's where and so forth, you can have a Help thread to ask those questions in!

Please keep the posts to the topic of answering/asking questions please. Also have patience with questions as sometimes posts get missed - you are allowed to re-post questions if a significant amount of time has passed without an answer (unless you'd be double posting which isn't allowed =p).

Please take a good look at the XY section of the main site first before asking your questions.
Also, please be aware some questions can't be answered at once.

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I'm sort of confused on how to evolve Inkay. You are suppose to hold the 3DS upside down to make evolve right? But when do you do this? Right before it levels up? Anytime during battle? Or just randomly flipping the 3DS upside down at any moment? And at what level can you start doing this?

Hey guys. I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but... in the PGL Link Serebii shared in t mentioned the Torchic Event. Does that mean we have to get it off the PGL or is it still over Wifi. Anyone know? Sorry is this is the wrong place to ask this.

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I've got a question regarding where the data gets saved to. I'm getting both physical copies of X and Y, is the data saved onto the cartridge or my 3DS system(SD card)?
I want to know if I can just play both games on one 3DS system then whenever I want to trade/battling with them I can just put one into another 3DS and still have it all. Or if I need to start both copies on different 3DS systems in order to trade/battle between the two.

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I've got a question regarding where the data gets saved to. I'm getting both physical copies of X and Y, is the data saved onto the cartridge or my 3DS system(SD card)?
I want to know if I can just play both games on one 3DS system then whenever I want to trade/battling with them I can just put one into another 3DS and still have it all. Or if I need to start both copies on different 3DS systems in order to trade/battle between the two.

3DS games, whether physical or a digital copy, it always saves on the SD card.
So, if you wish to trade or battle, you need to have a separate system, each with their own saves and copies.

Simply copying your save to another SD card and using it on a different 3DS won't work.

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3DS games, whether physical or a digital copy, it always saves on the SD card.
So, if you wish to trade or battle, you need to have a separate system, each with their own saves and copies.

Simply copying your save to another SD card and using it on a different 3DS won't work.

I still doubt about that. Maybe for digital copies, but I can freely play my physical game carts without a SD card on my 3DS and my saved file is there.
I sometimes put my own game on my brother's 3DS and my save file is there as well...

I still doubt about that. Maybe for digital copies, but I can freely play my physical game carts without a SD card on my 3DS and my saved file is there.
I sometimes put my own game on my brother's 3DS and my save file is there as well...

Hmmm... I guess I got my facts wrong. I apologize.
@Mime Senior: It's best to try it out yourself then.

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Hmmm... I guess I got my facts wrong. I apologize.
@Mime Senior: It's best to try it out yourself then.

That's okay.
Now that I think of it, when 3DS wasn't out yet, where did our game carts saved ? If I remember correctly, the original DS didn't have a SD Cart, right ? That's how I went with the theory SD cards do not save completely your files, but I think it only is important for digital games, pictures taken by the 3DS camera and stuff like that.
I'm pretty sure it saves on the 3DS cart the same way. Unless you're buying one digitally, Mime Senior, it think it doesn't matter. You can even try to save your game without a SD card if you want it to be proven.

Unless you're buying one digitally, Mime Senior, it think it doesn't matter. You can even try to save your game without a SD card if you want it to be proven.

Yeah I'm receiving physical copies of both in order to trade/breed between my own games so I shouldn't have to worry about the SD card at all.
Plus I can just test it with Zelda now to see if your experience is true for all 3DS'.

Hmmm... I guess I got my facts wrong. I apologize.
@Mime Senior: It's best to try it out yourself then.

It's alright, that did confuse me at first however.
Considering the fact that I can still play all my other 3DS games(which are all physical copoies btw) on my older 3DS, and be able to play right were I left off from my main 3DS XL. I already knew digital copies saved to the SD card cause it's not like you can trade it between 3DS systems to play.
I believe only certain streetpass data/updates for the game are saved onto the 3DS system, and not available if you play it on another 3DS. So I believe as long as you have the physical copies no matter if you play them on the same 3DS you'll be able to trade between the two if you put one into another 3DS.

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